SSD boot disks: a performance test Solid-state drives are now affordable enough to fit in your desktop PC or notebook, in order to speed up the loading of the OS and key applications.

Was doing the review for the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive and the OCZ Vertex 3 SSD, and I really needed to do a boot time comparison for the Seagate Momentus XT, so I decided why not do ...

Think your hard drive might be failing? Here's how to test your SSD or HDD and catch problems early.

If you're upgrading from an HDD to an SSD, make the most of the extra speed it offers by setting the SSD as your boot drive.

HDD versus SSD: Dawn of Storage, in the middle of the massive GeForce GTX 760 versus GTX 1060 battle. Who wins?!

Solid state drives (SSDs) are more reliable than hard disk drives (HDDs) over five years of usage. But that's not the only thing to think about when shopping.

After thorough investigation, Microsoft has found no connection between the August 2025 Windows security update and the types ...

For the first time, Backblaze's latest report on storage drive reliability is focusing on Solid State Drives (SSD) rather than HDD units alone. The company started using ...

My system boot drive many moons ago was a WD Raptor and when that HD is crunching, you know the HDD is alive alright. That's just no longer a reality. You will look at the SSD wondering "is that ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...